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Adobe on Thursday said it is acquiring Topaz Labs, which offers AI models for video and image enhancement, and that it will make it a part of its creative business. Topaz Labs, which won an Emmy last year for its production tech, has existed for more than two decades, making tools for enhancing videos and images. In recent years, the company has released its own models: Astra for AI video upscaling and Wonder for image retouching and enhancement. The startup has also worked on a technology that makes it easier to run large video models on consumer-grade GPUs. Adobe, which…

Amazon on Thursday said it would invest an additional $13 billion to expand its AI and cloud footprint in India through 2030. The fresh investment, announced after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, will fund the expansion of Amazon Web Services’ data center capacity in Mumbai and Hyderabad. The announcement marks Amazon’s third major commitment for India in as many years. In 2023, following a meeting between Jassy and Modi, the company said it would invest $15 billion by 2030, including $12.7 billion for Amazon Web Services. It followed that with an over…

Sazabi has raised $8 million to expand its AI observability platform.The San Francisco-based startup says its monitoring, debugging, and incident response platform is designed for fast-moving engineering teams at startups using AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code.Founder and CEO Sherwood Callaway, a former Brex engineer, said he noticed that existing platforms were overwhelming software engineers with unnecessary dashboards and datasets. He realized the only thing that was really necessary was log data — a digital back box that keeps a time-stamped record of actions and errors within an application.”Whenever there was a problem in production, I would reach…

If you want to see a person’s eyes light up at a Silicon Valley party, just say the words “pre-IPO equity.” It works.Google’s sudden AI talent losses may have less to do with dissatisfaction and more to do with a timeless Silicon Valley calculation: where the biggest equity upside lives.Bloomberg reported Tuesday that two key Gemini researchers, Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, are leaving Google for Anthropic, adding to a growing list of high-profile departures from the search giant. The moves follow recent exits by AI luminaries, including Noam Shazeer and Nobel Prize winner John Jumper.It’s tempting to frame these…

The tech job market is showing signs of resilience so far this year, suggesting that AI may not destroy all white-collar work after all.Open tech job openings at tech companies have climbed nearly 14% so far this year, according to TrueUp data provided to Business Insider.TrueUp tracks job postings across 9,000 public tech companies, startups, and unicorns, rather than tech roles across the entire economy. This is ground zero for AI disruption because the tech industry usually adopts new technology and feels the impact first.And the impact so far has been mixed — certainly not the dystopian job collapse predicted…

It may sound like a trip through the produce aisle, but leading AI companies have something much more important on their lists.OpenAI, Meta, and Google have all relied on food-related names for their sometimes secretive plans for future AI models. OpenAI is even naming a highly anticipated advanced chip after a pepper.Thinking with your stomach is nothing new for Silicon Valley, just look at the assortment of desserts Android assembled over the years before Google had its fill.Here is a look at the mouthwatering and just plain goofy names AI and tech companies are using.OpenAI: JalapeñoWhen you’re challenging Nvidia, the…

Nvidia’s dominance in AI is moving beyond chips.For the first time, the company became the top vendor by revenue in data center Ethernet switches — the networking gear that helps connect AI chips inside data centers, according to market research firm IDC.This market is growing fast because cloud giants and other large businesses are pouring hundreds of billions into building out AI data centers. IDC research vice president Paul Nicholson called Nvidia’s ascension “one of the most significant vendor landscape shifts IDC has tracked in enterprise networking.”In the first quarter of 2026, Nvidia generated $2.1 billion in data center Ethernet…

Dutch Trade Minister Sjoerd Sjoerdsma visited Washington this week to meet with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and members of Congress to oppose the MATCH Act, a bill that would bar Chinese chipmakers from accessing Western semiconductor equipment, and one that would hit ASML especially hard. ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips. “It’s exceptional that I’m coming here to broadly outline our concerns to Congress,” Sjoerdsma told Bloomberg after the meetings. “The stakes for the Netherlands may…

For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise software. Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys, one of the largest such firms in India, is now betting that AI can do much of that work instead. His new startup, Hang Ten Systems, has raised a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield, it said Wednesday, with a strategic investment from Aramco Ventures and participation from angel investors. The startup, whose board includes Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, said it helps enterprises continuously build, modify, and operate software using…

Meta is walking back its stance on forcing engineers to join a task force focused on AI training, according to an internal memo obtained by Business Insider and four people familiar with the matter.Last month, Meta reassigned 7,000 employees to units such as an Applied AI task force to help train Meta’s coming AI models.On Wednesday, Meta sent a memo about this task force, saying the company will now “defer to each individual’s choice.” The company sent the email to employees who had been “drafted,” as some described its Applied AI task force.”As I emphasized before, personal agency will remain…